NAVY NEWS, DECEMBER 2008 29
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e Simon Ethell
Near or far, all are remembered
FROM home soil to far-off Royal was sunk on November 14 In the northern Gulf, HM contingent in Sarajevo – 110-year-old former Tommy from HMS Raleigh attended a
shores, the Royal Navy joined
1941, and the Fleet Flagship later ships Ramsey and Chiddingfold 13-strong, or which three are Harry Patch, and the youngster service at Horson cemetery in
the country in a period of
held a service of commemoration marked Remembrance Day in RN – also paid their respects. of the trio, 108-year-old Bill Torpoint, marking the loss of
reflection, remembering the
during exercises in the Atlantic. the Iraqi port of Umm Qasr. HMS Cumberland held a Stone, represented the Navy. 44 sailors in an air raid, while
fallen 90 years after the end
HMS Atherstone, one of four Members of the Joint service at sea in the Gulf of Aden Assisting Bill was Military personnel took part in the
of World War 1, writes Tim
RN minehunters in the Gulf, held Helicopter Force and 45 Cdo during her anti-piracy patrols, Cross holder Mne Mkhuseli annual Remembrance Sunday
while HMS Northumberland Jones. parade at RNAS Culdrose.
Burtt.
a service at her base in Bahrain, RM gathered for their services
as did HMS Blyth and frigate at Basra (Iraq) and Sangin paid her respects to the dead in Members of 40 Cdo RM took The Navy’s other air base,
A platoon from survey ship
HMS Lancaster – personnel on (Afghanistan) respectively. the Seychelles. part in the London ceremonies, RNAS Yeovilton, saw personnel
HMS Echo, currently operating
Sailors attached to HMS while their colleagues paid their joined by children in one of the
in Singapore, joined a service
the latter were joined by sailors Eleven Royals from Basra
Agrippa were prominent at the own respects back home at hangars; music was provided
at the Kranji Commonwealth
from RFA Diligence. flew to the site of the Sea Knight
two ceremonies traditionally Norton Manor Camp. by the HMS Heron band.
War Cemetery, where heavy
Other Naval personnel based crash on the Al Faw peninsula
rain added to the sombre mood
in Bahrain with the UK Maritime in Iraq, where eight Britons and held by the British community A contingent from Fleet Patrol Sailors from HMS Gloucester
of the ceremony.
Component Command, led four Americans became the in Naples, at the British and
Group RM made the annual took part in ceremonies in their
The CO of HMS Iron Duke,
by Cdre Tim Lowe, attended first casualties of the Gulf War;
Commonwealth War Cemetery pilgrimage to the Commando ship’s namesake city, including
Cdr Mark Newland, laid a
a service of remembrance at the 11, of all ranks, held a brief
at Miano and at Christ Church. memorial at Spean Bridge to a private service for those
wreath at San Carlos cemetery
the Old Christian Cemetery in commemorative service before
Back on home shores, two join veterans for a service of specifically lost in the RN.
in the Falklands, while a service
Manama alongside colleagues flying back to base.
Royal Navy veterans took pride remembrance. The RN Diversity Awareness
was held in the Arabian Sea
from the other Forces. And the small British
of place on Armistice Day at the The RN took a prominent role Team attended the Memorial
on sister ship Kent, part of
Cenotaph in London. in events at the RN Memorials Gates service on Constitution
Coalition Task Force 150 while
Britain’s oldest man, on Plymouth Hoe and Southsea Hill in London, recognising the
en route to the UK after her Far
112-year-old Henry Allingham, Common, while sailors in contribution of Commonwealth
East deployment.
transferred from the Navy to HMS Ocean took shelter from forces.
The remotest community
the newly-formed RAF in 1918, blustery conditions of Plymouth Two groups from submarine
on Earth, once home to HMS
and 90 years on represented his Sound, honouring the fallen in HMS Sceptre visited their
Atlantic Isle, held their first
aviation colleagues. the ship’s cavernous hangar. affiliated town, Wigan, and
ceremony of remembrance.
Alongside Henry was Further west, 650 personnel nearby Atherton for services.
A number of the 269 islanders
of Tristan da Cunha, deep in
Picture: LA(Phot) Simon Ethell
the South Atlantic, followed their
service of remembrance with a
ceremony to mark their respect
for British and Commonwealth
Servicemen and women lost in
the South Atlantic during and
since World War 1.
Picture: Sgt Ian
Further south, patrol ship HMS Houlding
Clyde conducted a memorial
service over the wreck of HMS
● Clockwise from top left: Remembrance service on Plymouth Hoe;
Coventry, where 19 men died
Musn Sara James RMB plays the Last Post and Reveille in Naples;
during the Falklands war.
crosses at the Spean Bridge Commando Memorial; HMS Clyde at
In Lisbon, the sailors of HMS
San Carlos Water in the Falklands; the CO of HMS Cumberland,
Somerset, on anti-submarine
Cdr Peter Sparkes, puts a wreath into the sea in the Gulf of Aden;
exercises, marched through service at the Commando Memorial at Spean Bridge; a member of
the Jardim da Estrela park en 45 Commando RM Battle Group North at Sangin, Helmand Province
route to a service at St George’s in Afghanistan; Neptune Volunteer Band leads the parade through
Church. Helensburgh for Remembrance Day; the ceremony at Plymouth Hoe;
HMS Ark Royal was brought the image of a poppy is projected on to the funnel of HMS Illustrious
to rest over the spot east of at Greenwich; (above) World War 1 veterans Henry Allingham (left),
Gibraltar where the third Ark Harry Patch and Bill Stone (right) in London for Remembrance Day
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